HYCO1 and Kansas ethanol collaborate on world’s largest biogenic CO2 utilization facility.
HYCO1, Inc. proclaims that it has entered right into a 20-year carbon dioxide provide settlement with Kansas Ethanol, positioned in Lyons, Kansas for the deliberate development of the world’s largest biogenic carbon dioxide utilization facility, Inexperienced Carbon Synthetics Kansas, LLC. HYCO1 is a Houston, Texas (USA) based mostly know-how firm that has created a disruptive CO2 conversion catalyst and associated low-cost CO2 course of know-how.
HYCO1 CUBE Expertise (Carbon Utilization, Finest Effectivity) cost-effectively makes use of carbon dioxide and numerous methane supply feedstocks to create low-cost, low-carbon chemical grade syngas in a single cross. The syngas produced is used to supply low carbon depth (CI) downstream merchandise.
HYCO1 know-how not solely lowers the resultant carbon rating of the downstream merchandise by 50% to 100% however does so at a aggressive price in comparison with fossil feedstock derived merchandise and with out the requirement of incentives like many different applied sciences. HYCO1 know-how allows inexperienced syngas for use for making merchandise comparable to Hydrogen, Artificial Base Oils, Low-Carbon Jet Fuels, Inexperienced Methanol, and lots of others.
The brand new HYCO1 undertaking to be co-located with Kansas Ethanol will make the most of all of their 800 tons per day of CO2 to supply roughly 60 million gallons per yr of low-carbon and zero-carbon merchandise.
Kurt Dieker, Chief Growth Officer, and Co-founder of HYCO1, acknowledged:
HYCO1 is happy to announce this modern, subsequent era undertaking and to collaborate with the Kansas Ethanol workforce, which runs probably the most superior ethanol manufacturing amenities within the nation.
“I’ve labored with the Kansas Ethanol workforce for the final fifteen years, together with my tenure as Director of Expertise Technique at ICM, Inc., the world’s largest ethanol know-how supplier.”
Dieker continued “Whereas there are a lot of paths that an ethanol facility can take to enhance sustainability and margins, starting from further vitality efficiencies to protein separation, in my view CO2 utilization represents the main value-added step for an ethanol manufacturing facility.” Lastly, “As a local Kansan, I’m particularly proud to have the ability to construct the primary of many HYCO1 Carbon Unfavourable, Planet Optimistic amenities beginning with this flagship undertaking in Kansas.”
The Lyons HYCO1 undertaking is within the engineering stage with plans to finish the pre-construction engineering in 2024. The ability will produce roughly 4,000 barrels per day of first-of-a-kind artificial Base Lubricating Oils and Low-Carbon Jet Gasoline constituted of CO2.
Excessive-performance merchandise embrace 4 centistoke base oil to be used within the highest grade artificial motor oils; and a two centistoke base oil presently being examined by EV producers for its ultimate battery and drive-train warmth switch and lubrication properties. The tasks’ merchandise are produced with greater than 80% reductions in carbon footprints versus conventional fossil-derived merchandise. Roughly half of the burden of those new sustainable merchandise will include biogenic CO2 that will have beforehand been emitted into the environment.
Mike Chisam, CEO of Kansas Ethanol, mentioned of the undertaking:
Though most ethanol producers are contemplating or pursuing underground carbon sequestration in our {industry} to decarbonize, we consider that carbon utilization, which helps a round carbon economic system, represents the perfect use of our CO2, and positions us extra competitively out there.
“Worth added merchandise constituted of CO2 that displace fossil derived merchandise represents a win for us at Kansas Ethanol, a win for the U.S. Ethanol Sector, and a win for the worldwide surroundings. We’re wanting ahead to the development of the HYCO1-based Inexperienced Carbon Synthetics Kansas, LLC facility subsequent to ours. The co-location advantages: carbon dioxide utilization, pure fuel offset by way of waste warmth steam manufacturing, and extra electrical energy offsets will place our facility as a world chief of low-carbon ethanol leading to vital shared financial savings.”
Chisam additionally famous “HYCO1’s carbon utilization know-how allows us to sustainably produce all merchandise, even when, or when, authorities assist incentives are not out there. That’s extremely essential to us.”
HYCO1 is presently evaluating further undertaking websites and companions to reflect the Inexperienced Carbon Synthetics Kansas, LLC undertaking, whereas additionally collaborating with downstream know-how suppliers to supply different low-carbon merchandise.
About HYCO1:
Based by industrial fuel, inexperienced chemical, and bio-fuels manufacturing specialists in 2020, HYCO1 is a brand new carbon know-how firm based mostly in Houston, Texas. HYCO1 CUBE Expertise is developed, examined, and able to deploy commercially at full-scale. HYCO1 collaborates with industrial corporations worldwide to assist them develop into extra sustainable.
The know-how makes use of a revolutionary catalyst and course of design to transform industrial scale CO2 emissions into low carbon depth syngas and inexperienced chemical substances. HYCO1’s know-how allows the usage of third-party CO2 as a feedstock to concurrently decrease the operational price of business fuel manufacturing whereas creating zero to unfavourable emissions from the method.
The modern know-how creates low-cost, low-carbon hydrogen and carbon monoxide, that are used as chemical constructing blocks to create numerous downstream merchandise, together with Artificial Base Oils utilized in lubricants, Low-Carbon Jet Gasoline, Inexperienced Methanol, Ammonia, Urea, and others.
About Kansas Ethanol: Positioned in Lyons, KS, Kansas Ethanol is an industry-leading, best-of-class 80 million gallon per yr gasoline and USP grade ethanol facility. The corporate started producing ethanol from its ICM-designed and constructed facility in 2008. Since then, Kansas Ethanol has been on the forefront of innovation and sustainability, diversifying its bio-feedstocks, income streams, and repeatedly lowering its carbon footprint.
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HYCO1 and Kansas Ethanol Collaborate on World’s Largest Biogenic CO2 Utilization Facility, HOUSTON, July 18, 2023
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